United States high school students work part time at aircraft plants during World War II. 'James A. Garfield High School' written on the school building in Los Angeles. Boys and girls in the school campus. Students relax in garden and the campus. The students work at the Lockheed and Douglas aircraft plants. Girls get ready for their part time job. They work in the company. The boys perform different tasks like drilling and welding in the aircraft plant. Older men help them. Aircraft parked on ground. Three boys are interviewed. Aircraft in flight.
Animation character 'Private Snafu' disturbs all other people when they are studying. He scoffs at education. Technical Fairy, First Class comes and makes him Snafuperman. He flies in the sky to work against the enemy. He makes many mistakes as he does not refer to any reading material. He does not take a navigation guide when he goes to drop the bomb on Adolf Hitler and drops the bomb in United States. Technical Fairy recovers it. He lands on a Japanese tank which actually is a U.S. tank. He sees aircraft in flight. He collects them and becomes a victim of a blast. He is admitted in hospital. He learns later that education is important. (World War II period).
United States Army and Navy newsroom where combat films are processed. The combat films are made by U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marines. A man with a roll of negative. A cameraman of U.S. Marines explains how the footage of the Tarawa invasion in the Pacific Theater was taken. Marines aboard the ships. Chaplains carry out a religious ceremony on the ship. Marines read prayer books during the religious ceremony on deck. Some Marines are seen kneeling in prayer. Marines hold a cake with inscription “A Jungle Plus Coconut Tree Equals Jap So Keep Your Eyes Open”. The Marines and the cameraman instructed about the operation. Officer points to a map. Naval guns fired. Heavy smoke and explosions. Invasion barges beached. The troops land on the beach. Some Marines wade on water. Troops fire. The wounded are carried on stretcher and evacuated on Higgins boat. Dead bodies of the Japanese soldiers. A bloated body of a Japanese soldier with arms and legs outstretched. Prisoners on beach. Soldiers clear airstrips. A kitten hides under a tank. Soldier feeds kitten. Naked soldiers washing themselves outside a village. Artillery on the beach. Troops go to see the raising of U.S. flag. (World War II period).
Nationalist Chinese troops of the 38th Infantry Division are seen moving through Jungles with pack animals carrying supplies as they advance toward key city of Bhamo (Banmaw), Burma, during World War 2. A map shows the area, highlighting cities of Rangoon (Yangon), Mandalay, and Bhamo. Using small assault boats, the Chinese troops cross a river near outskirts of Bhamo. American officers, working with the Chinese troops, consult a map as they plot the attack. Chinese artillerymen begin a barrage, as their infantry advance. Allied P-47 aircraft bomb Japanese positions only a few hundred yards in front of advancing Chinese infantry. Chinese troops make their way through bombed and burning areas. Severely damaged Buddhist Shwe Kyina pagoda is seen. A destroyed wall with Buddha statue. Lieutenant General Daniel I. Sultan, U.S. Commander in Burma and India, inspects the captured city. Chinese troops raise their flag over the city.
Blizzard conditions on the Western Front during World War II. United States M4 Sherman tanks tanks plow through snow in the Low Countries. Tanks, trucks and infantry struggle along a road. The tanks are camouflaged in white. Snow plows followed by jeep and infantry clear the road. Military police direct traffic. U.S. troops shovel snow. The engineers search for mines along roads and roadside ditches. A signal man talks at a field. Snow covered Piper Grasshopper airplane. telephone. A camouflaged field gun. U.S. troops sled and toboggan with children on snow covered ground.
From a United States Public Health Service film for women, "A Message to Women." Dramatization stresses the importance of understanding the venereal disease Gonorrhea. A Doctor observes a slide under a microscope. He asks the patient to look at the slide of Gonococci, the causal organism of gonorrhea. The young woman who is the gonorrhea patient refuses to believe. The doctor explains her about the nature of the disease. He advices her to come for the treatment and asks the name of her companion. The doctor states that he will talk to her mother about it. He calls the nurse and tells her to give the medications. The doctor calls the patient's mother. The woman asks about her daughter's disease. The doctor talks about her daughter's disease.
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